[Nottingham] What has Linux done for you?

[Martin]

Folks,

To paraphrase a certain (in)famous phrase from The Life of Brian[1], 
here's a possibly interesting article on the place of Open Source in the 
real world:

How Open Source Can Beat the Status Quo
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166551/how_open_source_can_beat_the_status_quo.html

... Or can it?

(I suspect that a certain big vendor will simply recolour it's spots and 
lead people up a garden path to lock them into "open sauces" (garden) 
forks...)


So what has Linux done for you?

Initially for myself, it was an 'obvious' route to avoid the silliness 
with anti-virus and (the lack of) security with the OS I was using at 
the time. Linux also offered unix-style preemptive multitasking and 
threads, both not available at the time on that certain other 'OS'. The 
zero licence fee was very good also. Since then, lots of friendly fun!

Cheers,
Martin


[1]: See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Life_of_Brian#Political_satire

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Martin Lomas
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